LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boats Given By Corporate Bodies
OF the 157 life-boats in the Institu- tion's active fleet to-day, and the 23 in the reserve fleet, only six have been built out of the general funds of the Institution. The great majority have been provided by private legacies, but there...
Category: Donations
Life-Boat
The sea runs high, and surging foam Is spent against the rocky shore, The moon sails on amidst the clouds That surge across the angry sky; No voice is heard, until one word Is called by lone maroon. 'Distress'.
The...
Category: Poetry
Adur II, of Liverpool
AUGUST 10TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. At three in the afternoon the Hartland Point coastguard telephoned to the Clovelly life-boat station that a small tug had foundered a mile northwest of the point. A moderate north-west breeze...
A Landing Craft
OUT OF PETROL Padstow, Cornwall.—At 9.55 in the evening of the 29th of March, 1947, the Trevose Head coastguard reported that a vessel was firing rockets two miles to the north-east of him. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing and the...
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Newhaven, Sussex. At 10.22 on the morning of the 30th of December, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report from the police at Brighton that a woman had fallen in the sea off Saltdean. At 10.35 the life-boat...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WEXFORD, IRELAND.—The No. 1 (large) Life-boat, placed at Wexford about four- teen years since, having become unfit for further service, it was replaced by the Institution in November, 1871—a very fine boat, 40 feet long and 10 feet wide,...
Category: Articles
Disaster to the Submarine Truculent
ON the 12th of January, 1950, H.M.
submarine Truculent, with about seventy-nine men on board, and the Swedish motor tanker, Divina, collided in the Thames Estuary; the submarine sank at once.
This was...
Category: Services
Divers In Difficulties
Cromer'sTyne was also involved in this service on 29 August, with the station's D class inflatable, when three divers were rescued after getting into difficulties.
Two men and a woman from a university diving club... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cassandra, of Liverpool
Again, on that day, during a gale from the W.N.W., the barque Cassandra, of Liverpool, was wrecked in Compton Bay, near this Life- boat Station, while on a voyage to the Thames from Madras. The Life-boat George and Anne was taken to the Bay,...
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Tenby
RESCUEE RETURNS WITH THANKS
James Probert says he ‘simply would not be here’ if not for the quick and professional response of his rescuers. The 58-year-old father of four collapsed in a car park...
Category: Articles